LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 December 1925, Page 3

LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

A MEMORABLE CONFERENCE. [Reuter Telegrams.] (Received this day at 11.23 a.m.) HENKVA, Dee. 17. Sir A. Chamberlain interviewed, said three things made the present meeting of the League important. Firstly, the settlement of the Graeco-Bulgarian dispute, which might have had calamitous consequences; secondly, the Mosul Settlements, which Britain accepted and welcomed, though he at present was not aware of the entire terms of the decision. As regards the Iraq mandate 23 years was the maximum, and a mandate would cease the moment an independent Iraq joined the l/cogue. It had been impossible to hold conversations with the Turks.

iis tlicrs was no common ground. We are anxious to create good relations, and if Turkey is now willing, starting flora tlie decision of the League, we lie happy to converse with her.” Thirdly, the deposits of the Locarno Agreement with the Secretariat renders the session memoiame. MOSUL AWARDED TO BRITAIN. MAX DA TK OPERATIVE Wri'IIIX SIX MONTHS. (Received tliis day at 11.2.3 a.m.) GENEVA. Decemher 10. Official.—The Council awarded Mosul to Britain conditionally on Britain agreeing to a twenty-five years' mandate, to terminate earlier if Iraq (niters the League, the Brussels line to constitute the Turkish frontier. The decision is to lie operative within six months provided Britain fulfils the conditions.